ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook. YouTube. Wikipedia.
Flickr. They're the user-created stuff of Web 2.0 -- also known as social
computing -- that have changed the way people interact with computers and
each other.

Developing a formal understanding of the underlying dynamics at play and the
critical technology choices has required a patchwork of academic courses at
a select few institutions.

Now the University of Michigan School of Information (SI) offers students
the nation's first graduate-degree specialization in social computing
through the Master of Science in Information.

SI faculty have been leaders in inventing and analyzing many of the
underlying techniques that have powered the rise of social computing,
including recommender systems, reputation systems, prediction markets,
social network analysis, online communities, and computer-supported
cooperative work.

The specialization is one of nine the School offers -- six of which are
newly launched -- that prepare students for careers in long-established and
newly emerging fields.

"Our specializations give students more choice and more flexibility than
ever before," says Judy Lawson, director of academic and career services.
"They also respond to the needs of organizations in hot fields like social
computing. Employers want graduates with a deep understanding of how to
manage information and at the same time make it easily accessible to users.
SI is staying ahead of the curve."

In addition to Social Computing, the School offers specializations in:

-- Incentive-Centered Design -- Teaches the art of designing systems or
institutions to align individual incentives with overall organizational
goals. It draws deeply from economics, psychology, and sociology, with
computer science as a unifying thread.

-- Community Informatics -- Prepares students for positions as public
interest information professionals and technical leaders for nonprofit
organizations, government agencies, community development agencies, and
entrepreneurial social ventures.

-- Information Analysis and Retrieval -- Teaches how information is stored
in computer systems, how it is searched and analyzed, and how humans access
it.

-- Preservation of Information -- Identifies preservation challenges and
standards-based preservation practices and responds to the urgent need for
expertise in preservation, digital curation, and Web archiving.

-- Information Policy -- Prepares students to analyze and design information
policy at both the organizational and general public policy level.

-- Library and Information Services -- Prepares students for all aspects of
librarianship. Students may also choose a track for careers in K-12 school
media.

-- Archives and Records Management -- Teaches concepts and techniques to
manage historical materials as well as methods that can be applied in
information systems design to support integrity, authenticity, access, and
long-term preservation of records.

-- Human-Computer Interaction -- Educates the professional who designs and
develops technologies that fit the organization and work practices, the work
to be done, and the capabilities of the user.

The multidisciplinary School of Information has a rich history of innovative
teaching and path-breaking research. The School also offers dual master's
degrees in business, law, medicine, nursing, public policy, and social work,
and a Ph.D. in information.

Details about the School are available at si.umich.edu/go or by calling
(734) 763-2285.

Website: http://si.umich.edu/
<http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=fs12EMZ1FEU=&do...
F03123032007-1&redirect=1&url=http://si.umich.edu/>

Thanks John for sharing this information.

  For all of us that have an interest in the information management(access-storage-use-safegard-redesign) for efficient use or competitive advantage, the new Master of Ann Arbor represents the tip of the iceberg for what we should call the overhaul of the Information Management discipline.

  The new offering responds to a changing or evolving society with differents needs to be adressed. And all the capabilities of the traditional disciplines and the inovative ones are there and can be combined in a specific harmonic way to design a new field. And this trend, noticed in the offerings of the University of Michigan and many other leading colleges (Drexel, Utexas, Simmons College, Indiana University among many others) are part of the iSchool movement-caucus-consortium.

  As a Information Professional interested in many specialities, I just wonder when it will be possible for the student to completely design his own degree by taking a-la-carte courses from the best colleges in each of the revolutionary and traditional speciality.

  Always good to observe these changes and participate in them.

  Regards
  Ulrich Tibaut Houzanme
  --
  Information Professional:
  Kowledge Manamement
  Competitive Intelligence
  tibaut_houza...@yahoo.com

"John Maloney ( http://kmblogs.com/ )" <jheuris...@gmail.com> wrote:
                ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook. YouTube. Wikipedia. Flickr. They're the user-created stuff of Web 2.0 -- also known as social computing -- that have changed the way people interact with computers and each other.
  Developing a formal understanding of the underlying dynamics at play and the critical technology choices has required a patchwork of academic courses at a select few institutions.
  Now the University of Michigan School of Information (SI) offers students the nation's first graduate-degree specialization in social computing through the Master of Science in Information.
  SI faculty have been leaders in inventing and analyzing many of the underlying techniques that have powered the rise of social computing, including recommender systems, reputation systems, prediction markets, social network analysis, online communities, and computer-supported cooperative work.
  The specialization is one of nine the School offers -- six of which are newly launched -- that prepare students for careers in long-established and newly emerging fields.
  "Our specializations give students more choice and more flexibility than ever before," says Judy Lawson, director of academic and career services. "They also respond to the needs of organizations in hot fields like social computing. Employers want graduates with a deep understanding of how to manage information and at the same time make it easily accessible to users. SI is staying ahead of the curve."
  In addition to Social Computing, the School offers specializations in:
  -- Incentive-Centered Design -- Teaches the art of designing systems or institutions to align individual incentives with overall organizational goals. It draws deeply from economics, psychology, and sociology, with computer science as a unifying thread.
  -- Community Informatics -- Prepares students for positions as public interest information professionals and technical leaders for nonprofit organizations, government agencies, community development agencies, and entrepreneurial social ventures.
  -- Information Analysis and Retrieval -- Teaches how information is stored in computer systems, how it is searched and analyzed, and how humans access it.
  -- Preservation of Information -- Identifies preservation challenges and standards-based preservation practices and responds to the urgent need for expertise in preservation, digital curation, and Web archiving.
  -- Information Policy -- Prepares students to analyze and design information policy at both the organizational and general public policy level.
  -- Library and Information Services -- Prepares students for all aspects of librarianship. Students may also choose a track for careers in K-12 school media.
  -- Archives and Records Management -- Teaches concepts and techniques to manage historical materials as well as methods that can be applied in information systems design to support integrity, authenticity, access, and long-term preservation of records.
  -- Human-Computer Interaction -- Educates the professional who designs and develops technologies that fit the organization and work practices, the work to be done, and the capabilities of the user.
  The multidisciplinary School of Information has a rich history of innovative teaching and path-breaking research. The School also offers dual master's degrees in business, law, medicine, nursing, public policy, and social work, and a Ph.D. in information.
  Details about the School are available at si.umich.edu/go or by calling (734) 763-2285.
  Website: http://si.umich.edu/

The WISE consortium among the iSchools allows students to take online
courses at the other institutions while registering and paying at their home
school. I don't believe that this is quite the wide open choice as described
below, but it's a start. While my school is still proud to be an lSchool
(library school), we have beefed up our information science component and
may be interested in participating in WISE.

There is still significant demand for librarians, albeit often tech-savvy
librarians, so that my school has seen a big increase in enrollment to
provide graduates for the traditional jobs that still exist in the field.
Smaller public, school, and even academic libraries don't have the big bucks
to be on the cutting edge of technology and need librarians who have
mastered the traditional skills.

Robert P. Holley

Professor, Library & Information Science Program

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI 48202

313-577-4021 (phone)

313-577-7563 (fax)

aa3...@wayne.edu (email)

  _____  

From: Prediction-Markets@googlegroups.com
[mailto:Prediction-Markets@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tibaut houzanme
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 2:46 PM
To: Prediction-Markets@googlegroups.com
Cc: John BERRY
Subject: Re: Master of Science in Information

Thanks John for sharing this information.

For all of us that have an interest in the information
management(access-storage-use-safegard-redesign) for efficient use or
competitive advantage, the new Master of Ann Arbor represents the tip of the
iceberg for what we should call the overhaul of the Information Management
discipline.

The new offering responds to a changing or evolving society with differents
needs to be adressed. And all the capabilities of the traditional
disciplines and the inovative ones are there and can be combined in a
specific harmonic way to design a new field. And this trend, noticed in the
offerings of the University of Michigan and many other leading colleges
(Drexel, Utexas, Simmons College, Indiana University among many others) are
part of the iSchool movement-caucus-consortium.

As a Information Professional interested in many specialities, I just wonder
when it will be possible for the student to completely design his own degree
by taking a-la-carte courses from the best colleges in each of the
revolutionary and traditional speciality.

Always good to observe these changes and participate in them.

Regards

Ulrich Tibaut Houzanme

--

Information Professional:

Kowledge Manamement

Competitive Intelligence

tibaut_houza...@yahoo.com <mailto:tibaut_houza...@yahoo.com>

"John Maloney ( http://kmblogs.com/ )" <jheuris...@gmail.com> wrote:

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook. YouTube. Wikipedia.
Flickr. They're the user-created stuff of Web 2.0 -- also known as social
computing -- that have changed the way people interact with computers and
each other.

Developing a formal understanding of the underlying dynamics at play and the
critical technology choices has required a patchwork of academic courses at
a select few institutions.

Now the University of Michigan School of Information (SI) offers students
the nation's first graduate-degree specialization in social computing
through the Master of Science in Information.

SI faculty have been leaders in inventing and analyzing many of the
underlying techniques that have powered the rise of social computing,
including recommender systems, reputation systems, prediction markets,
social network analysis, online communities, and computer-supported
cooperative work.

The specialization is one of nine the School offers -- six of which are
newly launched -- that prepare students for careers in long-established and
newly emerging fields.

"Our specializations give students more choice and more flexibility than
ever before," says Judy Lawson, director of academic and career services.
"They also respond to the needs of organizations in hot fields like social
computing. Employers want graduates with a deep understanding of how to
manage information and at the same time make it easily accessible to users.
SI is staying ahead of the curve."

In addition to Social Computing, the School offers specializations in:

-- Incentive-Centered Design -- Teaches the art of designing systems or
institutions to align individual incentives with overall organizational
goals. It draws deeply from economics, psychology, and sociology, with
computer science as a unifying thread.

-- Community Informatics -- Prepares students for positions as public
interest information professionals and technical leaders for nonprofit
organizations, government agencies, community development agencies, and
entrepreneurial social ventures.

-- Information Analysis and Retrieval -- Teaches how information is stored
in computer systems, how it is searched and analyzed, and how humans access
it.

-- Preservation of Information -- Identifies preservation challenges and
standards-based preservation practices and responds to the urgent need for
expertise in preservation, digital curation, and Web archiving.

-- Information Policy -- Prepares students to analyze and design information
policy at both the organizational and general public policy level.

-- Library and Information Services -- Prepares students for all aspects of
librarianship. Students may also choose a track for careers in K-12 school
media.

-- Archives and Records Management -- Teaches concepts and techniques to
manage historical materials as well as methods that can be applied in
information systems design to support integrity, authenticity, access, and
long-term preservation of records.

-- Human-Computer Interaction -- Educates the professional who designs and
develops technologies that fit the organization and work practices, the work
to be done, and the capabilities of the user.

The multidisciplinary School of Information has a rich history of innovative
teaching and path-breaking research. The School also offers dual master's
degrees in business, law, medicine, nursing, public policy, and social work,
and a Ph.D. in information.

Details about the School are available at si.umich.edu/go or by calling
(734) 763-2285.

Website: http://si.umich.edu/
<http://www.trafficresults.com/click-rabbit.php?acctid=fs12EMZ1FEU=&do...
F03123032007-1&redirect=1&url=http://si.umich.edu/>

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